Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and migraine headaches, both as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in at least approximate balance that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder and migraine headaches are caused or aggravated by his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include other specified trauma-and-stressor-related stressor with adjustment-like disorder and depressive disorder due to another medical condition with major depressive-like episode, Migraine headaches including migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2025
- Citation
- A25107422
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